Have you found that yesterday’s approaches do not apply to tomorrow and you need fresh ideas and perspectives now?
This workshop was designed to provide teams and individuals with methods to challenge well-established thinking and frequently discover new possibilities.
You will be able to:
- Identify precisely the thought patterns that are blocking your creative capacity
- Use a type of questioning that will provoke new ideas
- Put yourself in a ‘state of mind’ for creative thinking
- Communicate creative ideas in a way that is psychologically compelling
- Create and maintain collaborative conditions for working creatively in teams
The book that supports this workshop (Creative Juices by Daryll Scott) will be available late 2011.
What we cover:
Thinking ‘outside of the box’
- Understand what ‘the box’ is and more importantly how it happens
- Recognize the language that indicates inflexible and limited thinking
- Learn precise challenges to break down the walls of ‘the box’
- Impose a process to add new perspectives
Increasing creative capacity:
- Create a deeply reflective state of mind – allowing ideas to bubble up from your unconscious mind
- Notice the hints and ideas from our environment, and create environments to increase inspiration
- Use a neurological game to put yourself into high-performance creative state of mind
The power of metaphor:
- Create well-formed (isomorphic) metaphors that are psychologically engaging
- Design the delivery metaphors through concepts, narratives or experiences
Creating collaborative conditions:
- Create conditions for open and engaged contribution from all parties
- Recognise the difference between an inductive approach (opening up and adding options) and a deductive approach (drilling down to remove options) and know when to do which
- Learn body language and linguistic techniques to overcome differences of opinion and ‘keep the ball rolling’ constructively
